How to cope with jumping kangaroos? Dish out the Pill

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Kangaroo numbers have risen to 34 million, up from 25 million in 2010Getty Images

Bernard LaganSydney

Published at 12:01AM, May 16 2014

Australia is to put kangaroos on the pill in an attempt to control their
exploding population.

Kangaroo numbers have soared in many areas due to a combination of heavy
rainfalls in the Outback - providing lush grassland feed stocks - and a fall
off in international demand for kangaroo meat, leading to less commercial
hunting.

A contraceptive drug is to be trialled on 500 of the nation’s most pampered
wild kangaroos living in lush, well-watered nature reserves around the
country’s national capital, Canberra,186 miles south west of Sydney.